LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The "Taihapo Daily Times" will not be published on Wednesday next (New Year's Day). Advertisers will please note.

A German mine, together with lifebuoys, was found on Thursday on the beach at Oaonui, near Opunake,

Large quantities of cheese will be lifted by the Arawa, which sails for London on the last day of the year, Possibly the balance of last season's cheese will be cleared by this vessel.

Parkinson's ■ Hawera Star Almanack for the New Year is to hand, in the' 36th year of publication. It is a comprehensive book, invaluable to the farmer as well as to business folks who require a work of reference.

A 12-year-old, named William Janet was drowned while bathing in the river at Putiki on Thursday. He was seen to dive off s log and did not reappear. , A search was made for the body without success.

Special services (appropriate to the last Sunday of the year will be held in the local Methodist Church tomorrow. The preacher for the day will be the Rev. W. H. Hocking. A hearty invitation is extended to all especially visitors to the town.

At the inquiry into the Public Hospital management it was stated by one of the witnesses that skimmed milk had been given patients, and in controversion of that statement we have been informed by the hospital staff that only a small portion of skimmed milk is used, and that portion only for puddings. It is not given to patients in any other form. According to hospital custom the cereals are soaked in water before adding the milk. When prepared iii that way they cook more easily, and consequently are more readily digested. Eggs are given to patients in various forms, but are not added to the milk puddings.

The "Canton Times" is certainly frank. A recent issue reported that Koining district was attacked by influenza the last few days. Many patients have died of this disease because most of the doctors there did not understand its nature and treatment.

A German commanding officer rethe Western front: "A particularly good assault division. Its character is a very strongly developed individual self-confidence or enterprise, typical of the Colonial Englishman, and a specially pronounced hatred of the Germans. The division prides itself on taking few prisoners.''

"It was only a friendly game—a few threepences and sixpences," said a man who was charged at the Magistrate's Court with having played the well-known game of chance, "Crown and Anchor," at the Eangiora Eaeceoursc, on Labour Day. "But Detective-Sergeant Gibson says there were two or three half crowns on the cloth when he caught you.'' said Chief-Detective Mcllveney. "Yes, but I had to put them on the corners of the cloth myself to keep it from blowing away." came the not very convincing reply, midst laughter.

During a thunderstorm which took place at Sunderland (England), a "rain of fish occurred in the Hendon district. The iarea covered included pavts of several streets, within a radius of about 100 yards. The fish lay from 20 to 30 to the square yard, and were of a kind known locally as "sile" being in shape like a small eel, and varying in legnth from two or three inches. They appeared to be all dead when they fell. It is supposed they had been drawn up from the sea in a waterspout. The incident caused considerable comment in the neighbourhood. The spot where they fell is a few hundred yards from the sea shore.

Speaking at the South Canterbury, executive meeting of the Farmers' Union Mr J. F. Buckley said that the wool-growers had sacrificed some millions in agreeing to the commandeer prices. The people at Home, should know this. What the fanners objected to was that their wool should be allowed to get into the hands of profiteers "who made huge profits out of it. The ghastly part of the business was that the widow who went to buy a pound or wool to knit a pair of socks for her son at the war had to pay 10s 6d for it, whereas it was sold to the manufacturers at iabout, Is 3d or Is 4d per lb. The chairman (Mr J. Bitchncr) said there was rto doubt but that the wool-growers had been "fleeced," and New Zealand : wool-len-mill owners must have made lots of moncv as a result.